This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14th December 1965 "Murray Gimblett (Equal Dux. Whakarongo School.)"
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 14, 1965
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 December 1962, "Father Christmas and a group of his young admirers are seen at the Palmerston North Fire Brigade's Christmas party on Wednesday night."
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 21, 1962
The Kairanga County Council was established in 1902 as a result of the amalgamation of the Manawatū Road Board and the Fitzherbert Road Board. The County amalgamated with the Manawatū County in 1988 to form the first Manawatū District Council. In ...
Creator: Kairanga County Council
Date: 1934 to 1948
The army helped Santa out at the Ashhurst Christmas parade 2019.
Creator: Ashhurst Library
Place: 82 Cambridge Avenue, Ashhurst
Date: December 14, 2019
The Kairanga County Council was established in 1902 as a result of the amalgamation of the Manawatū Road Board and the Fitzherbert Road Board. The County amalgamated with the Manawatū County in 1988 to form the first Manawatū District Council. In ...
Creator: Kairanga County Council
Date: 1920 to 1933
The Kairanga County Council was established in 1902 as a result of the amalgamation of the Manawatū Road Board and the Fitzherbert Road Board. The County amalgamated with the Manawatū County in 1988 to form the first Manawatū District Council. In ...
Creator: Kairanga County Council
Date: 1907 to 1910
The Victoria Esplanade gardens were opened in 1897. The phoenix palms were first planted along Victoria Drive in the late 1930s, although many of them have since been replaced.
Creator: Massey University
Place: Palm Drive, Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: circa 2000
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 10th December 1965 "Jane Hocking (Dux. Carncot.)"
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 10, 1965
The group that later formed the Palmerston North branch of the Anglican Church Embroidery Guild commenced meeting informally at St Peter's Church in September 1951. Mrs R L Bennett, who had trained with the Royal School of Needlework, visited Palm...
Creator: Anglican Church Embroidery Guild, St Peter's Church
Date: 1951 to 1959
Motorcycle racing programme for the meeting at the Ashhurst racecourse, 22nd January, 1926.
Place: Ashhurst
Date: January 22, 1926
This photograph album depicts member of the Monrad family and their friends, in Denmark and New Zealand. It is undated but many originate from the 1860s onwards.
Ditlev Gothard Monrad (1811–1887) was a prominent figure in nineteenth-century Denma...
Date: 1860/19XX
Free taxis were available from Palmerston North City Centre out to the Newbury Dances.
I remember going with girlfriends. Sitting on the seats in the photos on here and waiting to be asked for a dance. Good memories.
Creator:
Place: Newbury Palmerston North
Date: May 1969
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1930s
'Kaingahou' in Palmerston North was built for Ditlev Monrad after he retired from Karere in 1905. He died in 1908. The house was later owned by the Kendall family, Mr R A Swan, Mrs Helen Beckman and Bodil and Gunner Petersen. The 3500 square foot ...
Place: 642 Pioneer Highway
Date: 1910s
Oscar Monrad with Viggo and Jan, his only great-grandchildren. Taken not long before his death and may be the last photo taken of him.
Frank, Thekla, Ditlev, Peter, Kamma, Viggo and 2nd wife Johanna (formerly Garde).
Viggo Monrad was the son of Bishop Ditlev Monrad. He married Olga Berg (1843-1884) born in Denmark, married in Denmark in 1865. They came to New Zealand in 1867 and...
Mrs Elizabeth Kendall (1853-1930) pictured at Kaingahou.
'Kaingahou' in Palmerston North was built for Ditlev Monrad after he retired from Karere in 1905. He died in 1908. The house was later owned by the Kendall family, Mr R A Swan, Mrs Helen Be...
Place: 642 Pioneer Highway
Ditlev Monrad wrote this letter to his Aunt in December 1884.
Date: 1884
A certificate issued in 1896, verifying the marriage of Viggo Monrad to Olga Berg in Denmark 1865.
A translation reads:
"Certificate of Marriage
Batchelor, Lieutenant of the Reserve, Viggo Monrad from Hummeltofte and Miss Olga Maria Berg were, ...
Date: 1896
Some vintage motorcycle race programmes, different districts.
Place: Various
Date: 1900s
Captioned: 'Potato planting at Karere. O. Monrad, C. Cartwright, S. Ronberg, P. Dalgaard.'
The Monrad farm at Karere was established by Bishop Ditlev Monrad, former Premier of Denmark. He lived there with his family 1866-1869. The farm was contin...
Place: Longburn
Date: 1896
Viggo Monrad wrote this letter to Marie and Johannes Monrad in the United States of America in April 1885.
An English translation by Bodil Petersen can be read in files _004 and _005.
Date: 1885
Place: Foxton beach
Date: December 30, 1930
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 15, 1934
Letter written by Olga Monrad (nee Berg) wife of Ditlev Monrad.
Written in Danish on the back of a set of photographs, the letter describes life on the farm at Karere between c.1860s and 1870s.
Reproduced here are the photographs, the handwrittin...
Place: Karere, Longburn
Date: 1860 to 1880
Captioned 'From Maria Monrad to Ditlev, July 1896 - Pine tree planted at Karere farm 1866 by Bishop Monrad's wife.'
The Monrad farm at Karere was established by Bishop Ditlev Monrad, former Premier of Denmark. He lived there with his family 1866-...
Place: Longburn
Date: 1896
Diary written by Olga Monrad (nee Berg) wife of Ditlev Monrad.
Written in Danish, the diary talks about everyday life on the farm at Karere between 1869 and 1871.
A translation to English by Bodil Petersen can be read from file _019.
Ditlev Goth...
Date: 1869 to 1871
Ditlev and Kamma Monrad - married 1890. The original photo was taken by James Bragge, Manners Street, Wellington between 1890 and 1899. This image was digitised from a copy made by Tom Law in 1985.
Date: 1890
Johannes Monrad (1849), Louise Bache (1845), Otto Bache (1845), Viggo Monrad (1842), Karen Fredericksen (1858) and Ada Fredericksen (1841).
Bishop Ditlev Gothard Monrad, his wife, sons Viggo and Johannes and families came to the Palmerston North ...
Place: Someren, Netherlands
Date: 1904
Ditlev Monrad wrote this letter to his father from Karere Farm in November 1897.
An English translation by Bodil Petersen can be read in files _004 and _005.
Date: 1897